[G]  [D]  [Am]  [C]  x4

[G]                        [D]
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
[Am] *                             [C]
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
[G]                            [D]
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
[Am] *                      [C]
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

[G]  [D]  [Am]  [C]

[G]                   [D]
Rosenberg's, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
[Am]                       [C]
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
[G]                    [D]
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
[Am]                  [C]
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire;
       [Am]
It was always burning,
          [C]
Since the world's been turning
[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
      [Am]
No we didn't light it,
       [C]
But we tried to fight it

[G]                        [D]
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
[Am]                       [C]
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
[G]                     [D]
Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
[Am]                    [C]
Dien Bien, Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
[G]                     [D]
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
[Am]                        [C]
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
[G]                 [D]
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
[Am]                              [C]
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire;
       [Am]
It was always burning,
          [C]
Since the world's been turning
[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
      [Am]
No we didn't light it,
       [C]
But we tried to fight it

[Am]                      [Em]
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
[Am]                     [D]
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
[Am]                          [Em]
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
[Am]                       [D]                      [Dsus2] [D] x2
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide 

[G]                       [D]
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
[Am]                  [C]
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
[G]                  [D]
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
[Am]                        [C]
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
       [Am]
It was always burning,
          [C]
Since the world's been turning
[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
      [Am]
No we didn't light it,
       [C]
But we tried to fight it

[G]                     [D]
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
[Am]             [C]
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
[G]                     [D]
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania
[Am]                    [C]
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
[G]                     [D]
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
[Am]               [C]
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
       [Am]
It was always burning,
          [C]
Since the world's been turning
[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
      [Am]
No we didn't light it,
       [C]
But we tried to fight it

[G]                           [D]
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
[Am]                    [C]
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
[G]                         [D]
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
[Am]                   [C]
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
[G]                              [D]
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
[Am]                            [C]
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
[G]                          [D]
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
[Am]                         [C]
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
       [Am]
It was always burning,
          [C]
Since the world's been turning
[G]                   [D]
We didn't start the fire
         [Am]
But when we are gone
        [C]                  [G]       [D]       [Am]    [C]
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on      x3